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Subject for the next meeting, proposed by Prof. Mapes — '^Win- 

 ter preparation and cure of manure." Solon Robinson — "Treat- 

 ment of stock." 



Adjourned. H, MEIGS, Secretary, 



March 2, 1S5S. 



Present — Messrs. President Pell, Dr. Waterbury, Dr. Smith, 

 Dr. Wellington, Solon Robinson, Judge Seoville^ Mr. Smith, 

 Mr. B. Pike, Mr. Eixby, Mr. Pratt. Mr. Pardee, Hon. John D. 

 Ward, T. W. Field, of Brooklyn, Fuller, W^m. B. Leonard, Hon. 

 Hugh Maxwell, Mr. Turell, Mr. Davoll, Dr. Peek, of Brooklyn, 

 and others — ^fifty in all. 



Hon. Robert S. Livingston in the chair. Henry Meigs, Sec'y. 



The Secretary read the following translations and extracts from 

 the works last received by the steamers, &c. 



The Revue Horticole, Paris, January 1858, contains an article 

 on the scientific advantages of very high microscopic power in the 

 study of organized bodies. This powerfully increased vision is 

 no less magnificent in the infinitely small than in the infinitely 

 great. Unknown worlds above, as well as below our ordinary 

 visual powers, are now in the course of observation, even so far 

 in the composites of bodies, as to have proved superior in value 

 to the best results of chemical analysis. 



Mr. Pell, the President of this Institute, first collected the Eu- 

 ropean (chiefly London) microscopic observations on drugs and 

 on materials for our tables. Those facts are inestimable for health, 

 and are detectors of villainy in our feeders, infinitely superior to> 

 all law and all police. The powerful microscope brings their in- 

 visible properties (to the naked eye) into broad sun light. 



The Institute should be provided with these great powers of 

 investigation, to extend in every direction its all searching eflS- 

 ciency. There is scarcely an organized body which under its 

 operation, must not yield up to demonstration, the wonders in it. 



While the Institute may at present give up the study of the 

 Heavens to Lord Ross, Leverrier, Adams, and their brothers of 



